First, thanks so much for providing this emacs config. I'm very excited to be moving away from TextMate and toward Emacs.

So here's my issue: I've follow all of the steps outlined in your blog post, and for the most part this works. The problem is that el-get doesn't seem to be loading any of the packages in el-get-sources. For that matter el-get doesn't seem to want to load itself.

I've modified my script to include the snippet provided by @genexp (per the latest el-get docs). No dice. With or without it, when I run M-x: eval-buffer, I see the following message:

Yes, I did follow the installation procedure outlined in the aforementioned blog post. I noticed that after I cloned the el-get repo into ~/.emacs.d/el-get (resulting in ~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get) and ran eval-buffer, the cloned repo disappeared (resulting in ~/.emacs.d/el-get). I'm not sure if that's supposed to happen, but it certainly seems suspicious.

Thanks for the post, @mig and thanks for the help so far @genexp. I also followed instructions and got a similar result. I'll work through the issues and see if I can get it resolved on my own, but if in the meantime you have any advice, I'd appreciate it. I'm sure you're busy, so don't sweat it if not.

When I put in the above gist into my ~/.emacs.d/init.el and run M-x eval-buffer, the size of the text changes, etc, but it doesn't seem to be recognized. I don't get any warnings/errors, just no response.

Hey JT - I had a similar problem until I got el-get to work. Start
with the example here: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get under
"Advanced Setup with Local Recipes" and see how far you get. You
should see Emacs contact the elpa server and download a bunch of
packages if it works. If not, I think you probably have some problem
with your el-get install. Make sure its actually located in the
location noted in the file (I figure you checked that, but hey, I
actually made the mistake initially myself so who knows).

Thanks for the post. I also followed instructions and got a similar result. I'll work through the issues and see if I can get it resolved on my own, but if in the meantime you have any advice, I'd appreciate it. I'm sure you're busy, so don't sweat it if not.

When I put in the above gist into my ~/.emacs.d/init.el and run M-x eval-buffer, the size of the text changes, etc, but it doesn't seem to be recognized. I don't get any warnings/errors, just no response.